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Content of what is covered in the Year 3 Medical Humanities Clerkship
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The department of surgery student progress committee reviews all comments provided by faculty and residents received from all performance evaluations received to determine Honors/Pass/Fail designations. There are no examinations required at the completion of the core clerkship or any of the surgery selectives offered during PEP.
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Content of what is covered in the Year 3 Medical Humanities Clerkship
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A SMART way to train SIU Residents at the MCLI

The SMART curriculum is a simulation based curriculum used to personalize resident training at SIU's Emergency Medicine residency program.
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Students will be evaluated at least weekly on clinical skills and professionalism using the On-the-Fly evaluation. All On-the-Fly evaluations are compiled by the clerkship to create a summative evaluation. Students must pass a clinical exam that includes two cases. One case includes interviewing a standardized patient, followed by a computerized clinical competency exam (CCX), which also includes a diagnosis justification (DxJ). The second case focuses on the student's ability to complete a mental status exam (MSE). The student views a recorded patient interview and then gets fifteen minutes
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Contact Neurology Clerkship Office

For more information, please contact: Brittany Klasing, Neurology Clerkship Coordinator Email : bklasing45@siumed.edu Neurology Clerkship Office: 217-545-7635 SIU School of Medicine Clerkship Faculty: Jayant Acharya, MD, Chairman Ahmed Abbas, MD, Clerkship Director Carolyn Holmes, MSN, RN-BC, Clerkship Nurse Educator Tom Ala, MD Hesham Allam, MD Jennifer Arnold, MD Murad Baba, MD Louis Graham, MD Faisal Ibrahim, MD Jeremy Kulacz, MD Sajjad Mueed, MD Akhil Shivaprasad, MD
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The Department of Psychiatry provides education and training in each year of the medical school curriculum, establishing the pre-requisite didactic and clinical knowledge as well as clinical skills for interested students to become successful candidates for psychiatric residency training. The medical school psychiatric curriculum also provides the clinical framework and exposure for students pursuing other fields of medicine to recognize the characteristic presenting signs and symptoms of primary mental disorders and to understand the clinical course and available treatments. The four-week
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Evaluation

Students may receive an overall clerkship rating of: Satisfactory Unsatisfactory The Department of Medicine faculty determines these ratings by evaluating a student’s performance in each of two categories: Clinical Skills/Application of Medical Knowledge, and Professional Behavior. In each category, a student’s performance may be designated: Meets Expectations Does Not Meet Expectations Sources of information used for each category and percentage weights assigned in determining ratings are: CLINICAL SKILLS / APPLICATION OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE WEIGHT 1. Review of Narrative Comments from Clinical
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